Inglewood Personal Injury Lawyer

Inglewood Personal Injury & Car Accident Lawyer

Hurt in Inglewood? Here is what to know.

• Yaghmai Law Firm represents Inglewood injury victims, plus matters in Hawthorne, Lennox, Westchester, Lawndale, Crenshaw, Ladera Heights, and the South LA / South Bay edge along the I-405 and I-105.
• The Inglewood docket concentrates on the I-405 (San Diego Freeway), I-105 (Century Freeway), SR-90 (Marina Freeway), Century Boulevard, La Cienega Boulevard, La Brea Avenue, Manchester Boulevard, and the Crenshaw Boulevard corridor – plus the event-traffic spikes around SoFi Stadium, the Kia Forum, and Intuit Dome.
• Filing window is two years per CCP 335.1. Government-claim notice is required within six months per Government Code 911.2.
• Contingency fee. No fee unless we recover.
• Call or text (888) 800-6731 or submit your case online.

Inglewood sits at the intersection of Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway), Interstate 105 (Glenn Anderson / Century Freeway), and the I-110 Harbor Freeway corridor adjacent to LAX. The city has become a major sports and entertainment hub anchored by SoFi Stadium (LA Rams, LA Chargers, Super Bowl, World Cup), the Kia Forum, the Intuit Dome (LA Clippers), and Hollywood Park Casino. Major surface streets include Manchester Boulevard, La Brea Avenue, Crenshaw Boulevard, Imperial Highway, Century Boulevard, and Prairie Avenue. Event day traffic produces a distinctive case mix with heavy pedestrian, rideshare, and parking-lot incidents.

Yaghmai Law Firm represents Inglewood residents, event-goers, and visitors injured in motor vehicle collisions, pedestrian and bicycle crashes, rideshare incidents, brain injuries, burn injuries, and wrongful death cases. The firm investigates liability using Inglewood PD and CHP reports, preserves event-venue surveillance footage and stadium-adjacent CCTV before retention windows expire, coordinates medical care at Centinela Hospital and nearby facilities, and either negotiates with the carrier or files suit at the appropriate LASC venue. You pay no attorney fees unless we recover.

Recent CHP-Reported Incidents in Inglewood

The list below is pulled from California Highway Patrol public incident data for Inglewood and updated automatically as new reports come in.

Inglewood Personal Injury Case Types

Inglewood sits at the convergence of the 405, the 105, and the 90 with Century Boulevard funneling LAX traffic east across the city. SoFi Stadium, the Kia Forum, and Intuit Dome bring event traffic spikes that put pressure on every surface artery on game and concert days. The case mix tracks both the freeway geometry and the event-traffic patterns.

• I-405 collisions through Inglewood and Hawthorne – the Century, Manchester, and La Tijera interchanges are recurring impact points.
• I-105 (Century Freeway) crashes through Inglewood between the 405 and the Crenshaw / La Brea exits – lane-change and rear-end exposure during commute and event hours.
• SR-90 (Marina Freeway) wrecks on the short freeway stretch through the Ladera and Westchester edge.
• SoFi Stadium / Kia Forum / Intuit Dome event-traffic incidents on Prairie Avenue, Pincay Drive, Manchester Boulevard, and around the Hollywood Park entry / exit gates.
• Century Boulevard corridor crashes tied to LAX-bound traffic and rental-car shuttle volume.
• Pedestrian and bicycle injuries on La Brea, La Cienega, and Manchester crosswalks, plus event-day pedestrian movement around the stadium district.

Airport-corridor collisions on Century Boulevard

Century Boulevard is a primary approach to Los Angeles International Airport, and the traffic reflects it: rideshare drivers hunting for pickups, hotel shuttles, cargo vans, and travelers who have never driven the street before.

The recurring patterns are rear-end impacts behind sudden passenger drop-offs and sideswipes from late lane changes near the ramps. Because so many of the drivers are commercial or app-based, identifying the correct insurer is frequently the first real task in the case rather than an afterthought.

Event-day crashes around the stadium district

SoFi Stadium at 1001 Stadium Drive, the Kia Forum, and the Intuit Dome place stadium-scale crowds into a compact street grid. The City has advised that significant congestion and delays should be expected on all major roadways surrounding the stadium on FIFA World Cup 2026 match days.

Event days change the risk profile rather than simply increasing volume. Temporary closures reroute drivers onto unfamiliar streets, rideshare staging blocks lanes, pedestrian density rises sharply, and impaired driving increases after evening events.

These cases benefit from evidence that only exists briefly: event-day traffic control plans, temporary signage placement, and rideshare trip records.

Pedestrian injuries on Florence, Manchester, and Crenshaw

Inglewood’s arterials are wide and fast, and they carry heavy pedestrian traffic to transit, retail, and the venues. The City has been upgrading pedestrian infrastructure along Florence Avenue, installing ladder crosswalks and ADA-compliant ramps where it meets Hindry Avenue, Glasgow Avenue, La Cienega Boulevard, Hyde Park Boulevard, and Ash Avenue.

Vehicle Code section 21950(a) requires drivers to yield to pedestrians crossing in a marked crosswalk or in an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. Insurers counter with subsection (b), which requires pedestrians to use ordinary care and not leave a curb into the path of an immediate hazard.

Whether that occurred is a factual question. On a signalized arterial with recent crosswalk upgrades, the physical evidence often contradicts the carrier’s version.

Transit crossings near the C Line

Metro’s C Line connects to the stadium district by shuttle from the Hawthorne/Lennox Station, so a large share of riders complete their journeys on foot across wide arterials. Pedestrian and left-turn collisions concentrate in those final blocks rather than along the corridor as a whole.

Rideshare and delivery-vehicle collisions

Between the airport and the venues, Inglewood generates as much app-based driving as almost anywhere in the county. Coverage depends on the app’s status at the moment of impact.

Public Utilities Code section 5433(b)(1) requires transportation network company insurance to be primary and in the amount of $1,000,000 for death, personal injury, and property damage from the moment a driver accepts a ride request until the ride is complete.

Establishing whether and when a ride was accepted routinely moves a claim from minimum limits into a far larger range, which is why that data is requested early.

Motorcycle and bicycle collisions

Riders on the I-405 and I-105 approaches deal with short merges and heavy lane changing. When lane splitting comes up, expect the carrier to raise it as though it settles fault.

Vehicle Code section 21658.1 defines lane splitting as riding a two-wheeled motorcycle between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane and permits the CHP to issue educational guidelines. It does not make the practice illegal.

For cyclists, the Three Feet for Safety Act, Vehicle Code section 21760, requires a driver overtaking a bicycle traveling in the same direction to pass at a safe distance that does not interfere with its safe operation, given the size and speed of each and the surrounding traffic.

Hit-and-run and impaired driving

Vehicle Code section 20001(a) requires a driver involved in a crash causing injury or death to stop immediately at the scene. A violation is punishable by imprisonment, or by up to a year in county jail, or by a fine of $1,000 to $10,000, or both.

The criminal case does not pay for your treatment. Where the driver is never identified, which is more common after large events, recovery usually runs through uninsured motorist coverage on your own policy.

Dangerous property and dog-bite claims

Not every Inglewood injury involves a vehicle. Civil Code section 1714(a) states the general rule: a person is responsible for injury caused to another by want of ordinary care in the management of their property or person, reduced by the injured person’s own want of ordinary care.

Dog-bite claims are governed by a stricter standard. Under Civil Code section 3342(a), an owner is liable for damages to a person bitten in a public place or while lawfully on private property, regardless of the animal’s prior viciousness or the owner’s knowledge of it.

Claims involving a public entity

If the City, the County, a transit agency, or the State may share responsibility for a roadway condition, signal, or event traffic plan, a much shorter deadline applies. Government Code section 911.2(a) requires a claim for death or personal injury to be presented no later than six months after the cause of action accrues.

On an event-day crash where traffic control may be at issue, that possibility should be assessed immediately rather than after the injury claim matures.

Fatal collisions

Code of Civil Procedure section 377.60 determines who may bring a wrongful death claim, beginning with the surviving spouse or domestic partner and children, or the decedent’s personal representative. The deadline is two years under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1, with the six-month government claim requirement layered on where a public entity is involved.

Compensation in an Inglewood Personal Injury Case

Inglewood PI cases are filed at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. LASC’s standing order routes every unlimited general-jurisdiction PI matter in LA County to its Central District Personal Injury Court. The Inglewood Courthouse on Regent Street, in the LASC Southwest District, handles criminal, limited civil, and family-law matters but not unlimited PI. From Inglewood the drive is roughly 10 miles to Mosk via the 110 or the surface arterials. South LA jury pools at Mosk skew working-class and event-traffic-aware, which factors into demand strategy.

Economic damages: medical specials (Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai for major trauma, Kaiser West LA / Kaiser South Bay, and the providers along Manchester and La Cienega), lost wages, future earning capacity, and property damage.

Non-economic damages: pain, suffering, emotional distress, and loss of enjoyment of life. Civil Code 3333.4 (Proposition 213) bars these for uninsured drivers and DUI plaintiffs.

Pure comparative fault under Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804.

UM/UIM under Insurance Code 11580.2 covers uninsured and hit-and-run incidents.

California Law That Governs Your Inglewood Case

None of these deadlines are negotiable.

• Statute of limitations: two years (CCP 335.1); one year from discovery for medical malpractice (CCP 340.5).
• Government claims: six months (Gov Code 911.2) against City of Inglewood, Inglewood PD, IUSD, LA County, LA Metro (K Line), Caltrans, the State. Note that SoFi Stadium, the Kia Forum, and the Intuit Dome are privately owned venues, but Inglewood municipal claims (sidewalk conditions, signal timing, crowd control) still go through Gov Code 911.2.
• SR-1 reporting: CVC 16000 within ten days.
• Hit-and-run: CVC 20001 and 20002.
• Negligence per se: CVC violations under Evidence Code 669.
• Comparative fault: Li v. Yellow Cab Co.
• Proposition 213: Civil Code 3333.4.

Local Driving Routes and Hazards in Inglewood

Inglewood sits inside one of the busiest freeway and event-traffic grids in Los Angeles County. The San Diego Freeway (I-405) runs along the city’s western side and the Century Freeway (I-105) crosses to the south, and the City of Inglewood describes the community as ringed by major freeways with eight major thoroughfares carrying traffic north-south and east-west. In our experience the most serious collisions here happen where that freeway volume spills onto city arterials that were never built for it.

The Century Boulevard and LAX corridor. Century Boulevard is a primary approach to Los Angeles International Airport, which puts rideshare pickups, hotel shuttles, cargo vans, and out-of-town drivers into the same lanes as local commuters. Lane changes near airport on-ramps and sudden stops for passenger drop-offs are a recurring source of rear-end and sideswipe crashes.

Event traffic at SoFi Stadium, the Kia Forum, and Intuit Dome. SoFi Stadium at 1001 Stadium Drive draws stadium-scale crowds into a compact street grid, and the City has advised that significant congestion and delays should be expected on all major roadways surrounding the stadium on FIFA World Cup 2026 match days. Event days bring heavy pedestrian volume, temporary street closures, rideshare staging, and a measurable rise in impaired driving after evening events.

La Cienega, Florence, Manchester, and Crenshaw. These arterials carry the through-traffic between the freeways and the stadium district. The City has been upgrading pedestrian infrastructure along Florence Avenue, installing ladder crosswalks and ADA-compliant ramps where it meets Hindry Avenue, Glasgow Avenue, La Cienega Boulevard, Hyde Park Boulevard, and Ash Avenue — a direct acknowledgment of how much pedestrian exposure these intersections carry.

Transit crossings. Metro’s C Line connects to the stadium district by shuttle from the Hawthorne/Lennox Station, so riders finish their trips on foot across wide, fast arterials. Pedestrian and left-turn collisions cluster at those last-block crossings.

If your crash happened on one of these corridors, the evidence that matters most — signal timing, nearby business and city camera footage, event-day traffic control plans, and rideshare trip records — is often overwritten within days. Preserving it early frequently decides who is found at fault.

What to Expect After an Inglewood Accident

Most people who call have never brought an injury claim before. This is how an Inglewood case tends to unfold, and where ground gets lost early.

Event-day evidence disappears within days

Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 gives you two years to file most injury claims, but that is rarely the real constraint here. Traffic control plans, temporary signage placement, rideshare trip data, and business camera footage around the venues all have short lives.

If a public entity may share responsibility for a roadway or traffic-control decision, Government Code section 911.2(a) requires the claim within six months rather than two years.

Work out which agency has the report

Crashes on I-405 and I-105 are California Highway Patrol matters; collisions on Inglewood streets are handled locally. Requesting from the wrong agency wastes weeks, and a crash near a ramp or during an event closure can generate records in more than one place.

An early offer is priced on incomplete information

Offers that arrive before treatment is finished are based on a medical picture nobody has seen yet. Accepting one generally closes the claim permanently, including for care you have not received.

Having an offer reviewed costs nothing, and if the number is fair we will tell you that rather than invent a dispute.

You do not have to give a recorded statement

The other driver’s insurer will often ask for one. You are not obligated to provide it, and those recordings are routinely used later to argue that your injuries were minor or that you contributed to the crash. Your own policy imposes separate duties toward your own insurer.

Once we are retained, that contact comes here instead of to you.

Do not let cost interrupt treatment

Gaps in care are among the first arguments a carrier uses to discount an injury. If the barrier is affording treatment rather than needing it, that is a solvable problem, and the options depend on your coverage.

Timelines

A straightforward claim with clear fault and completed treatment can resolve in months. Disputed liability, ongoing care, or a public entity claim takes longer. Settling before the medical picture is stable generally means settling for less than the case is worth.

Why Inglewood Residents Choose Yaghmai Law Firm

Inglewood clients work with Yaghmai Law Firm because the firm is responsive, multilingual, runs on contingency, and operates entirely remotely. Houtan Yaghmai personally handles every case in English, French, and Persian, with Spanish interpreters available at no additional cost.

Inglewood clients frequently come to us after doing everything right on their own and still getting nowhere with an adjuster. This is a small practice by choice. Houtan Yaghmai handles each case personally from the first call through resolution, so there are no handoffs to case managers and no repeating your history to somebody new every time you check in.

The firm works remotely. For an Inglewood client that usually means no parking near the venues, no drive across the county, and no time off work to sit in a waiting room. Documents are signed electronically and updates come by phone or text, scheduled around your treatment and your job rather than around office hours.

Conversations happen in English, French, or Persian, with Spanish interpreters arranged when needed. Injury cases run on contingency, so there is no fee unless there is a recovery, and the first conversation costs nothing whether or not you hire the firm.

“Most of my Inglewood clients are getting insurance calls before they have even healed. You do not owe them a statement. Let me handle that side.”

— Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President & Managing Attorney

You can verify Houtan’s California State Bar license at apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/298487.

Inglewood Personal Injury FAQ

How long do I have to file an Inglewood injury case?

Two years from the incident date under CCP 335.1. Public-entity claims (City of Inglewood, LA County, LA Metro, Caltrans for the 405 / 105 / 90, or LAWA for LAX-adjacent incidents) require a written government claim within six months under Government Code 911.2.

Where would my Inglewood case be filed?

At the Stanley Mosk Courthouse downtown. LASC routes unlimited PI to the Central District Personal Injury Court. The Inglewood Courthouse on Regent Street handles criminal, limited civil, and family matters but not unlimited PI.

Do you handle SoFi Stadium and Forum event-traffic incidents?

Yes. Event-day collisions and pedestrian incidents around SoFi, the Kia Forum, and Intuit Dome are recurring cases. We pull IPD and CHP reports, request city traffic-management plans for the specific event date, and look at venue surveillance where available.

What about I-405 and I-105 freeway crashes?

Yes. Both interstates carry serious-injury volume through Inglewood. CHP collision reports plus Caltrans roadway data and any private surveillance from properties along the freeway frontage start every freeway investigation.

What if the at-fault driver had no insurance?

UM/UIM under Insurance Code 11580.2 on your own auto policy carries the claim. Hit-and-run is treated the same way. We check household stacking.

What if some of the fault was mine?

Pure comparative fault under Li v. Yellow Cab Co. applies. Your share reduces recovery, not bars it.

What does it cost to hire the firm?

Nothing if there is no recovery. Contingency. No fee, no cost reimbursement out of your pocket.

Will my case go to trial?

Most settle. The ones that should be tried, we try. We work every file up as if it is going to trial.

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Reviewed by Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President & Managing Attorney. Admitted to practice law in California (State Bar No. 298487). He represents personal injury and immigration clients statewide.

Last updated: August 13, 2026.